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Yesterday at Bible Time, Alec was looking through the new Bible story book we’re reading, and he found a picture of light streaming out of an empty tomb.

“Can we read this story, Mom?”

I told him that Easter was actually this coming weekend, and that Easter is when we celebrate that very story, and of course we could read it.

It started with the crucifixion, and as I read I tried to make sure Alec especially understood why it was that Jesus had to die, but as I tried to talk about it, he kind of brushed off what I was saying with, “But in three days . . .”

Yes, in three days came the resurrection. And when we read it all as one story, when we know that glorious ending, it’s hard to remember to sit with the enormity of the crucifixion. ...continue reading →

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No mother is just a mother. We all have hobbies and interests, even if they’ve been on the back burner so long we’ve about forgotten them. Some of us have side gigs; some of us have little projects we fit in here and there.

I have a few of those, but the one that takes up the most of my time these days is probably the business bookkeeping. I won’t lie, there are quite a few days when I ponder how much extra time I would have if I wasn’t always filling in the cracks with paying bills and entering data and filing invoices. ...continue reading →

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I don’t know why you read here, and I hope you don’t either because, my word, my 2023 blog posts have been all over the map. Literally.

In January, a house tour in Australia. In February, a book review about Mennonites kidnapped in Haiti and another book review about parenting and brain science.

Let’s not get off track here in March, shall we? 🙂

How about a trip to the zoo . . . Emmett’s first zoo trip. Sebastian’s, too. Even Alec’s first time, although I probably shouldn’t be admitting that. A child not going to the zoo till they’re five years old? When the zoo is literally less than an hour away?

I think we kept saying, Let’s wait till he’s old enough to appreciate it. And then another baby brother would come along, so we’d say, Let’s wait till he’s old enough to appreciate it. And pretty soon, another baby brother came along, and we finally just went. ...continue reading →

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I did not mean to do this at all, but I just looked back through my blog archives for the last time I posted book recommendations, and what do you know, it was February 3, 2021. February must just be the time for it, right after those beginning-of-year resolutions to read more. 🙂

So yes, this is another book review blog post.

I feel bad about this first one, I really do, but I also feel silly to only review one book, so . . . forgive me. And maybe just skip the first review if you have an inside scoop on the actual real-life story and the people involved.

Kidnapped in Haiti by Katrina Hoover Lee. ...continue reading →